While food issues as political activism get nowhere the attention among liberals that it did a decade ago (remember the Michael Pollan for Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture boomlet in late 2008?)
In another sign of what any Republican administration would do, the Trumpers are coming for the Endangered Species Act. The Interior Department on Thursday proposed the most sweeping set of changes in
This is the grave of Tom McCall. Born in Scituate, Massachusetts in 1913 to a wealthy family who also had a big ranch in central Oregon, McCall fell in love with the West and graduated from Redmond Hi
Fresh off a two-decade effort to eviscerate the national monuments on Utah’s public lands, the state’s Republican lawmakers are engaging in a deeply cynical attempt to create a few small p
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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s 2015 book, The Mushroom at the End of the World, is simply one of the best academic works I have read in years. Tsing examines the matsutake mushroom–a prized food
Effluent flowing from an International Paper Company Mill into the Androscroggin River, Maine, 1973 David Zwick, architect of the Clean Water Act of 1972, has died. His passage brings a number of thou
While driving in eastern Oregon the other day, I saw a bald eagle. And it was great. I’ve seen them before, but it’s always a treat. And as an environmental historian (which is my actual p